GOLF: 11-year-old set for Women’s Open

PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) — With pigtails and plenty of giggles, Lucy Li just wants to have fun like any 11-year-old girl.

Except that she’s playing the biggest event in women’s golf.

The California sixth-grader is the youngest qualifier in the history of the U.S. Women’s Open. She played nine holes of practice at Pinehurst No. 2 and is looking forward to a course where Martin Kaymer won a U.S. Open title Sunday.

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko today proposed a unilateral cease-fire by his troops to allow pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country a chance to lay down weapons or leave the country, Russian and Ukrainian news agencies reported.

Poroshenko was quoted as saying this would be the first step in the peace plan he has proposed to de-escalate the conflict.